Bearing in mind issues surrounding e-safety and awareness, pupils should be given every opportunity to collaborate and share their learning with as wide an audience as possible.
Current common tools include:
Facebook
Twitter
Vimeo
Delicious
Blogs
Wikis
Etc...
What are the key skills in using these tools which will be sustainable (Long after Twitter, for example, folds)?
Signing up for an account
Managing privacy settings
IPR and copyright
Responsible and considerate use
Dealing with abuse/misuse
etc....
Challenges?
Modelling good practice
Staff appreciation of potential
On a practical level - it's useful to know when something has been unblocked - it took a long time for people to realise that they could access Youtube, and potential users are not aware that they can now access Edmodo...
Social Networking
Challenges
- Safety of both children and staff.
-Rights and responsibilities - children need to know what their rights and responsibilities are and where to go or what to do if something inappropriate happens. Support..
- Safety - Parents have to be informed of what we do and don't do. We can't leave it to chance that we each think the other is responsible for educating children in e safety. They need to be clear on what we do. (Workshops or similar could be set up to address this or A&B Council could have a Facebook type page or internet page with links where parents could be directed to find out information.)
- Who is responsible when something goes wrong? Policies and guidelines in place. Guidelines to help teachers teach children about the safety aspects and teach children how to use social networking safely and policies in place to ensure there is a system or protocol that is followed if/when something goes wrong. Aim is to help reduce the risks. (Possibly embedded in a PSE program).
- Resources - sufficient resources available. Someone available to help if things don't work ( a nominated person, or someone at the end of a telephone).
- Training for staff - Glow Chats/ Twilights?
-Examples of good practice,which could be shared. Problem of where to start... If good practice is shared then ideas are generated.
- How is this going to happen? Training.
- Issue of blocked sites .....wider access
Skills
- application awareness (no more hiding)
- application training for staff - edmodo etc
- as better informed facilitators we will have more informed children.
Opportunities
-Safety underlies it all if the safety is in place and the children have been taught this, then the opportunities are endless.
Access to social networking sites where they can share, assess and evaluate not only their work but see what is going on else where in the world and comment on this is an invaluable tool to their learning.
- Islands are no longer insular, there is a whole world out there.
- Skills for future learning - CVs, portfolios which future employers could access.
- Engaging children. They want to use these things. Engaging boys...they are already online use this to enhance their learning.
- Interface interaction - sharing with parents.
Connecting and Networking
Bearing in mind issues surrounding e-safety and awareness, pupils should be given every opportunity to collaborate and share their learning with as wide an audience as possible.Current common tools include:
What are the key skills in using these tools which will be sustainable (Long after Twitter, for example, folds)?
Signing up for an account
Managing privacy settings
IPR and copyright
Responsible and considerate use
Dealing with abuse/misuse
etc....
Challenges?
Modelling good practice
Staff appreciation of potential
On a practical level - it's useful to know when something has been unblocked - it took a long time for people to realise that they could access Youtube, and potential users are not aware that they can now access Edmodo...
Social Networking
Challenges
- Safety of both children and staff.
-Rights and responsibilities - children need to know what their rights and responsibilities are and where to go or what to do if something inappropriate happens. Support..
- Safety - Parents have to be informed of what we do and don't do. We can't leave it to chance that we each think the other is responsible for educating children in e safety. They need to be clear on what we do. (Workshops or similar could be set up to address this or A&B Council could have a Facebook type page or internet page with links where parents could be directed to find out information.)
- Who is responsible when something goes wrong? Policies and guidelines in place. Guidelines to help teachers teach children about the safety aspects and teach children how to use social networking safely and policies in place to ensure there is a system or protocol that is followed if/when something goes wrong. Aim is to help reduce the risks. (Possibly embedded in a PSE program).
- Resources - sufficient resources available. Someone available to help if things don't work ( a nominated person, or someone at the end of a telephone).
- Training for staff - Glow Chats/ Twilights?
-Examples of good practice,which could be shared. Problem of where to start... If good practice is shared then ideas are generated.
- How is this going to happen? Training.
- Issue of blocked sites .....wider access
Skills
- application awareness (no more hiding)
- application training for staff - edmodo etc
- as better informed facilitators we will have more informed children.
Opportunities
-Safety underlies it all if the safety is in place and the children have been taught this, then the opportunities are endless.
Access to social networking sites where they can share, assess and evaluate not only their work but see what is going on else where in the world and comment on this is an invaluable tool to their learning.
- Islands are no longer insular, there is a whole world out there.
- Skills for future learning - CVs, portfolios which future employers could access.
- Engaging children. They want to use these things. Engaging boys...they are already online use this to enhance their learning.
- Interface interaction - sharing with parents.